Subj : Re: ANSI Dungeon World...
To   : Shurato
From : hyjinx
Date : Wed Jul 23 2025 09:34 pm

 Sh> 
 Sh>  ki> Sh> When I worked at IBM in the early 90's, I was able to telnet to a
 Sh>  ki> system
 Sh>  ki> Sh> that had a mostly full screen ANSI world with dungeons and cities
 Sh>  ki> It
 Sh>  ki> Sh> was much more than a rogue like, it was an entire world.  Does an
 Sh>  ki> Sh> know what I'm talking about, or where I could find something like
 Sh>  ki> this?

So what you are describing is incredibly cool. I have wanted to write this game for a very long time. LORD2 is quite similar in a way, but I haven't really played LORD2 because the storyline isn't my bag.

What I wanted to make was a multiplayer world which wasn't a dungeon based thing. That used ANSI chars and control sequences (so, ANSI graphics - if you will call it graphics - the extended IBM charset).

The main thing I'd envisaged is rooms and rooms of places to visit. Houses, stores, fields, forests etc. All fullscreen (or maybe a status window to the side or something). Rather than being a fixed-goal world, it would be open to explore. People could either talk to others in real time or just leave others a message, and if two were there in real time, they could battle or trade. No offline battles. Every now and again I write a bit of code to get started, then I get busy :)

I wish what you are talking about was still online, I'd be hella interested!

Cheers!
Al 


hyjinx // Alistair Ross
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